1000 Ideas and Activities for Language Teachers

In this book, you will find a thousand games designed to help children

develop and reinforce their emergent literacy skills, in both

basic phonetic awareness and sight word recognition. As

your students play these games, they will gain proficiency in

identifying letters and sounds, consonants and short and long

vowels, words that rhyme, and words both related and

opposite in meaning. They will also have valuable practice in reading and vocabulary

building. Incidentally, in developing these games I kept in mind the needs of children

learning English as a second or foreign language.

The games, for the most part, are variations of favorite childhood games children

play purely for recreational purposes. For example, Simon Says becomes Read-the-

Message Simon Says, a game in which “Simon Says” and the commands are displayed

as written words that children have to read. Go Fish concentrates on blends. The game

Tic–Tac-Toe is used to help children practice reading the days of the week and the

months of the year.

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